South Tally Pond

 

Location: Newfoundland, Canada

Ownership: 100% Paragon Minerals Corporation (a 100%-owned subsidiary of Canadian Zinc)

Target: Precious metal-rich Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) Deposits (Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag, Au)

 Highlights

  • Large, 100%-controlled land position located adjacent to the producing Duck Pond Cu-Zn Mine (Teck Resources Ltd.)
  • Highly prospective, producing volcanic belt with numerous, underexplored Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag-Au VMS targets.
  • 74 drillholes totalling 24,277 metres completed at Lemarchant prospect;
  • Significant precious metal-rich base metal drill intercepts include:
  • 1.65% Cu, 12.74% Zn, 3.27% Pb, 185.75 g/t Ag and 10.13 g/t Au over 7.0 metres
  • 1.61% Cu, 11.83% Zn, 3.27% Pb, 528.31 g/t Ag and 3.13 g/t Au over 10.3 metres
  • 1.40% Cu, 14.80% Zn, 3.56% Pb, 80.90 g/t Ag and 1.35 g/t Au over 17.05 metres 
  • Initial NI43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate completed on the Lemarchant “Main Zone” in January 2012.
  • Lemarchant Deposit is defined to 210 metres depth and remains open along strike and to depth.

 

Resource Estimate using 7.5% Zinc Equivalent (ZnEQ) grade cut-off
Category
Tonnes
Zinc
(%)
Copper
(%)
Lead
(%)
Gold 
(g/t)
Silver
(g/t)
ZnEQ
(%)
Inferred
1,240,000
5.38
0.58
1.19
1.01
59.17
15.40
Indicated
1,340,000
3.70
0.41
0.86
1.00
50.41
11.97